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Bampton lectures, 1817,

THE DIVINE AUTHORITY OF HOLY SCRIPTURE ASSERTED,
FROM ITS ADAPTATION TO THE REAL STATE

OF HUMAN NATURE,

IN

EIGHT SERMONS

PREACHED BEFORE

THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

IN THE YEAR MDCCCXVII,

AT THE

LECTURE

FOUNDED BY

THE LATE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, M. A.

CANON OF SALISBURY.

BY

JOHN MILLER, M. A.

LATE FELLOW OF WORCESTER COLLEGE.

THIRD EDITION.

OXFORD,

PRINTED BY S. COLLINGWOOD, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY,

FOR JOHN HENRY PARKER,

AND SOLD BY J.G. AND F. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-
YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON.

MDCCCXXXVIII.

The following extracts from the original preface of 1817 are reprinted here, as being essential to a right apprehension of the design of this volume.

THE following Lectures having been undertaken under somewhat unusual circumstances, (which, however, it is not necessary here to describe) the Author has too much respect for the public to submit them to general perusal without some explanation.

It has been observed, that "to read a great deal would be a sure preventive of much writing; because almost every one might find all he has to say already written." The Author feels the truth of this observation; and does not doubt that, had his own reading been extensive, this present volume would never have appeared. Why then, under this consciousness, did he venture upon such a work?

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He answers, by reason of a belief that one of the best chances (humanly speaking) of contributing—not new, but fresh support to the cause

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